DUBAI – Inspection teams from the Dubai Sports Council and Dubai Economy, along with Dubai Municipality, served closure orders on two sports establishments and fined six others over the weekend for their failure to adhere to COVID-19 precautionary measures and […]
GAZA – Many Palestinians have commended the UAE’s move to provide the coronavirus vaccine to the Gaza Strip, in light of the long-imposed blockade that hinders the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines into the Strip. In a statement to the Emirates […]
NEW DELHI – International travelers arriving at Indian airports from the Middle East, Europe and the UK have been advised by the Ministry of Civil Aviation here to brace for longer wait times from 23rd Feb 2021, Tuesday. This is […]
ABU DHABI, 19th February, 2021- The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has announced that 93,101 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered in the past 24 hours. The total number of doses provided up to today stands at 5,466,831 […]
NEW YORK, 19th February, 2021 – Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have reached 110,341,923, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University, fatalities stood at 2,442,580. The U.S. leads the world in deaths and infections with 2,558 new deaths reported […]
GENEVA, 19th February 2021– The World Health Organisation (WHO) is seeking nearly $2 billion to fund its 2021 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) for COVID-19 response which, was launched on Thursday in Geneva. The strategy follows the initial plan […]
9th February, 2021 The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 165,796 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Tuesday, the Ministry stressed its aim to continue […]
Emirates SkyCargo, Dubai Airports, DP World, and International Humanitarian City join hands to distribute vaccines by air, land, and sea. The combined expertise, along with global air routes, seaports, and logistics networks, will speed up vaccine deployment, especially to developing […]
The number of people infected with the new Coronavirus worldwide exceeded 100 million today, Wednesday, according to a Reuters count. The statistics showed that about 1.3 percent of the world’s population was infected with the virus, while more than 2.1 […]
Coronavirus has not only changed our lives, but also our vocabulary. This, perhaps, is best reflected in the word “lockdown” becoming Word of the Year in 2020 as per Collins Dictionary. Mariam Webster and Dictionary.com have chosen “pandemic” as their Word of […]
NEW DELHI – The number of new cases of the new Coronavirus in India exceeded the barrier of nine million infections on November 20, 2019, as the capital, New Delhi, continues to report a rise in the number of cases […]